P.S.

I haven’t been dealing specifically with bipolar disorder over the last few days. That’s partly because I’m tired of being bipolar, but also to help out the simply depressive (or even normal) among you. I will get back on track tomorrow.

Revolt and Resignation

In his collection of essays On Aging, Holocaust survivor Jean Amery said that one must meet the phenomenon of aging -- inevitable yet terrifying -- with both revolt and resignation. So it is with mental illness. To deny that I will always be manic-depressive would be true madness; at the same time, I must revolt against my condition, rejecting the idea that it defines and limits me.